Top 10 Most Painful Topics
1. Northwest Ordinance -The banning of slavery in the territory had the effect of establishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
2. James Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817) and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
3. Fugitive Slave Act was laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. In an effort to dislodge them, the US government waged the Seminole Wars, in which a total of about 1,500 U.S. soldiers died.
4. Volta invents electric battery was an Italian physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in 1800.
5. War of 1812 there was many immediate stated causes for the declaration of war.
6. Louisiana purchase there population is estimated to be 97,00 an the 1810 census
7. John Adams with his one term as president he was very frustrated with all the battles in his own federalist party which Alexander Hamilton had the bi-partisan disagreements with Jeffersonian republicans.
8. Cherokee “Trail of Tears a lot of the natives suffered from disease and died.
9. Library of Congress After much of the original collection had been destroyed during the War of 1812; Thomas Jefferson sold 6487 books to the library, his entire personal library, in 1815.
10. Alien and Sedition Act to seditious attacks from weakening the government.
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Top 10 Most Exciting Topics
1. Lewis and Clarke expeditions 1804-1806 it was the first overland expedition undertaken by the United States to the Pacific coast and back. And Thomas Jefferson had long thought about such an expedition, but was concerned about the danger.
2. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 was the third President of the United States and he the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United State. And when he was 14 years old, his father died.
3. Fugitive Slave Act was laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. Many state authorities could not be forced to act in fugitive slave cases, but that national authorities must carry out the national law.
4. Eli Whitney invents cotton gin December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825 Whitney's invention made short staple cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery. But Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost his profits in legal battles over patent infringement, closed his business, and nearly filed bankruptcy.
5. Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. Two houses were at odds not only on the issue of slavery, but also on the parliamentary question of the inclusion of Maine and Missouri within the same bill.
6. Oregon Trail 1840-1860 was one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, leading from locations on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country. Distance travelers rapidly diminished as the railroad traffic replaced most need for it.
7. Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823. The U.S. lacked both a credible navy and army at the time. The doctrine was largely disregarded internationally.
8. California Gold Rush 1849 when gold was discovered by James Wilson Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. Native Americans were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and gold mining caused environmental harm.
9. Cherokee “Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation between 1836 to 1839 of the Cherokee Nation from their lands in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina to the Indian Territory. Cherokees were not the only Native Americans to emigrate as a result of the Indian Removal efforts. Native Americans were not only removed from the American South but also from the North, Midwest, Southwest, and Plains regions.
10. First Seminole War 1817-1818 also known as the Florida wars, were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans, collectively known as Seminoles, and the United States. the Seminoles murdered Mrs. Garrett, a woman living in Camden County, Georgia, and her two young children
2. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 was the third President of the United States and he the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United State. And when he was 14 years old, his father died.
3. Fugitive Slave Act was laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. Many state authorities could not be forced to act in fugitive slave cases, but that national authorities must carry out the national law.
4. Eli Whitney invents cotton gin December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825 Whitney's invention made short staple cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery. But Despite the social and economic impact of his invention, Whitney lost his profits in legal battles over patent infringement, closed his business, and nearly filed bankruptcy.
5. Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. Two houses were at odds not only on the issue of slavery, but also on the parliamentary question of the inclusion of Maine and Missouri within the same bill.
6. Oregon Trail 1840-1860 was one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, leading from locations on the Missouri River to the Oregon Country. Distance travelers rapidly diminished as the railroad traffic replaced most need for it.
7. Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823. The U.S. lacked both a credible navy and army at the time. The doctrine was largely disregarded internationally.
8. California Gold Rush 1849 when gold was discovered by James Wilson Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. Native Americans were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and gold mining caused environmental harm.
9. Cherokee “Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation between 1836 to 1839 of the Cherokee Nation from their lands in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and North Carolina to the Indian Territory. Cherokees were not the only Native Americans to emigrate as a result of the Indian Removal efforts. Native Americans were not only removed from the American South but also from the North, Midwest, Southwest, and Plains regions.
10. First Seminole War 1817-1818 also known as the Florida wars, were three conflicts in Florida between various groups of Native Americans, collectively known as Seminoles, and the United States. the Seminoles murdered Mrs. Garrett, a woman living in Camden County, Georgia, and her two young children
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